# Postmodernism | | **Postmodernism** is an intellectual stance or mode of discourse characterized by skepticism toward the "grand narratives" of modernism; rejection of epistemic (scientific) certainty or the stability of meaning; and sensitivity to the role of ideology in maintaining political power. Claims to objectivity are dismissed as naïve realism, with attention drawn to the conditional nature of knowledge claims within particular historical, political, and cultural discourses. The postmodern outlook is characterized by self-referentiality, epistemological relativism, moral relativism, pluralism, irony, irreverence, and eclecticism; it rejects the "universal validity" of binary oppositions, stable identity, hierarchy, and categorization. | |-|-| | | wikipedia:: [Postmodernism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism) | ## People - [[Michel Foucault]] - [[Jacques Derrida]] ## [[Post-structuralism]] ## [[Deconstruction]] ## [[Metanarrative|Grand Narrative]] ## Sources - [Critique of Jordan Peterson on Post-Modernism - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu5oaF3dx4E) ## Inbox - [[Jordan Peterson]] has a bizarre, dishonest understanding of postmodernism